Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
THERESE OF LISIEUXWithout love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
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Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident – in the most audacious way – in His Fatherly goodness.
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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled… yes… the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.
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